''Saxinis'' is a genus of case-bearing leaf beetles in the family
Chrysomelidae
The insects of the beetle family Chrysomelidae are commonly known as leaf beetles, and include over 37,000 (and probably at least 50,000) species in more than 2,500 genera, making up one of the largest and most commonly encountered of all beetle ...
. There are at least 10 described species in ''Saxinis''.
[White, Richard E. (1968). ''A Review of the Genus Cryptocephalus in America North of Mexico''. Smithsonian Institution Press.]
Species
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Saxinis apicalis
''Saxinis apicalis'' is a species of case-bearing leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae
The insects of the beetle family Chrysomelidae are commonly known as leaf beetles, and include over 37,000 (and probably at least 50,000) species in more ...
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J. L. LeConte, 1884
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Saxinis deserticola''
Moldenke, 1970
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Saxinis hornii''
Fall, 1909
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Saxinis knausii''
Schaeffer, 1906
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Saxinis omogera
''Saxinis omogera'' is a species in the family Chrysomelidae ("leaf beetles"), in the order Coleoptera ("beetles").
The distribution range of ''Saxinis omogera'' includes Central America and North America.
References
Further reading
* ''Ameri ...
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Lacordaire, 1848
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Saxinis saucia''
J. L. LeConte, 1857
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Saxinis sierramadrensis''
Moldenke, 1970
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Saxinis sinuata''
Schaeffer, 1906
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Saxinis sonorensis''
Jacoby, 1889
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Saxinis subpubescens''
Schaeffer, 1906
References
Further reading
* Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). ''American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea''. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida .
* Arnett, Ross H. (2000). ''American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico''. CRC Press.
* Richard E. White. (1983). ''Peterson Field Guides: Beetles''. Houghton Mifflin Company.
* Riley, Edward G., Shawn M. Clark, and Terry N. Seeno (2003). "Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae)". ''Coleopterists Society Special Publication no. 1'', 290.
External links
NCBI Taxonomy Browser, ''Saxinis''
Clytrini
Chrysomelidae genera
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